单词 | poetryless |
释义 | > as lemmasˈpoetryless ˈpoetryless adj. lacking or devoid of poetry; prosaic. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > [adjective] > having quality of prose prosaic1692 prosya1770 poetryless1854 1854 H. Strickland Trav. Thoughts 28 A soulless, poetryless, utilitarian, money-making Englishman is bad enough. 1965 Mod. Philol. 62 275/2 Arnold's attempt to make poetry out of the poetryless, un-Wordsworthian modern world. 2001 Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.) (Nexis) 26 May 2 They started mucking round with the King James Bible and shoving in all that rotten modern, poetryless cant. < as lemmas |
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